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Marketing students at Australia’s Victoria University and Malaysia’s Sunway University College have become the first in the world to learn qualitative research software program XSight as part of their final year of study.

As an independent research centre, the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) aims to create knowledge that contributes to both the speed and quality of poverty reduction. In this quest, the CPRC is particularly interested in using NVivo to foster international collaboration and also to combine the use of both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Judy is the facilitator of UML’s cross-campus Qualitative Research Network. The Graduate School of Education at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell provides training for teachers, administrators, and other educational professionals in the region and beyond. Judy Davidson, the facilitator of the cross-campus Qualitative Research Network, works with doctoral students whose research work includes a range of visual data.

Assistant Professor Ruben Calduch is the Health, Medicine and Society Director of the Faculty of Medicine at the Universidad Nacional de Tucuman in Argentina. Ruben is using QSR International’s NVivo software to explore the links between social issues and health problems in South America.

Ross Perkins, Senior Research Associate is a key contributor in The Office of Educational Research and Outreach (OERO), which is part of Virginia Tech's College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. He will use NVivo 8 on a project that examines the adoption and integration of multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) like Second Life.

Bruce Tsuji is a PhD student at Carleton University in the Department of Psychology. For his PhD thesis he compared how experts and novices understand data, particularly graphs and other visualizations. NVivo helped Bruce to get a “picture” of how novices and experts explain a graph.

Dr Millsom S Henry-Waring used N4 (NUD*IST 4) in a project about African Caribbean women in Britain. This was a mixed methods study that involved 110 women from six regions of the UK. Research tools included a postal survey, a video screening and face-to-face group and individual interviews.

Associate Professor and Chair of the State University of New York’s Anthropology Department, Dr. Victor De Munck, introduced NVivo software to his undergraduate Anthropology Research Methods class in late 2008. NVivo was integrated into a first year class where students used it for their assignments involving the analysis of life histories, stories and beliefs.

Qualitative research spans every continent and almost every topic. But in Hong Kong, three researchers are breaking new ground by examining the controversial and under-researched areas of minority stress, mature aged women and adolescents in Asia.

Assistant Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Dr Asuka Kawano, studied at the Tashkent State Pedagogical University in Uzbekistan, and undertook a research project to clarify the educational role of local communities (“Mahallas”) in Central Asia during the Post-Soviet period. Dr Kawano used NVivo to analyze her research data.